The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
- ISBN-10
- 1641291192
- ISBN-13
- 9781641291194
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Author
- Clarissa Goenawan
Description
University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful facade, unmasking her most painful secrets.
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- 2020-09-29
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